TESTIMONY

Essays on Testimony

Harvey's calling, as he understands it, is simple: tell the truth about what happened. These essays are acts of witness — not argument, not instruction, not performance. They are honest accounts of a life being lived by faith, offered in the belief that when we tell our truth, others recognize their own struggles reflected back.

  1. Writing Blind

    My inner world is just as important as my outer world. How I live inwardly will bring context and meaning to my daily life.

  2. Noticers, Rememberers, and Storytellers

    Our busyness, which we may think marks our importance, might actually be a travesty if the reason we are here is to notice all the details of living—to feel, hear, taste, and see the truth of being alive.

  3. Turning the Corner

    I want my work to be my salvation—spiritual, physical, relational. Though I know that 'godliness with contentment is great gain,' I have a lust for more.

  4. Sip of Coffee, Moving Pen

    Writing habit is, simply put, vulnerability. Exposing my deepest self and most tentative ideas is a habit that costs me. So I'd rather read someone else's writing than create my own.

  5. When Netflix Ambushes Your Family Evening

    We sat in silence a bit after I turned off the TV. I don't recall saying anything. Things can't be undone. Eventually, the evening continued as if nothing had happened. But something had.

  6. Nothing To Say

    I'm reading Everything Sad is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri, and it's like a holy moment—so many sweet, sad, precious memories.

  7. Awake but Asleep

    There it is: pressure. That's familiar. The tension in my chest and stomach, wanting to hold my breath. A feeling of impending disappointment lurking behind a closed door somewhere.

  8. The Weight I Couldn’t Carry

    That seven-year-old in the mud decided he'd prove his worth by being the smartest and best-paid guy in the room. It took decades to realize my life is my testimony, and it has value simply because it is a gift I've received from the One who says it is good.

  9. The Red Door

    Could a simple testimony provide an opening through which others can enter the Kingdom of God?

  10. God in Dangerous Places

    God met me in the dangerous place. I stood up and left that place knowing God loved me.

  11. Bearing Witness

    I'm old enough to pretend I no longer care what people think of me, so I've decided I have nothing to prove and little to lose by owning my life, claiming my story, and sharing it without pretense.